merriment 16 ; video (before platform stop)

[blitzcheer]

Yo, anyone see the large item order we can pick now?

...

What's the biggest thing anyone can think of. Hey, gimme some ideas!

[ LET'S SEE WHAT THEY CAN GET?? PUT IN YOUR SUGGESTIONS, VOTE FOR WHAT YOU AGREE WITH.

Edit: Tidus will have on the video in view a whiteboard (since he's in the standard coach), with a list of choices.

- BOUNCY HOUSE/CASTLE
- POTTERY WHEEL?
- ARCADE MACHINE - Lethal Enforcers, NBA Jam
- YOU CAN'T VOTE FOR MY MOM
- BOMBCHOO BOWLING ALLEY

Enjoy his mess of a handwriting.

Edit 2: Also, very importantly: ] Hey! Everyone! Tell the train to let us buy carriages!

Comments

[blitzcheer]

Well look at this! We got a whole new idea going on top of a mystery big item! [ Hah! ]

So you think you can build somethin' to play any games? Could you, uh, download them? 'Cause I've got a few for a handheld. If you can copy the data...

[ Then, presto - there's a few games. ]

[blue_ice]

I should be able to. Let me look at the handheld, see if it transmits wirelessly or I need to build a connector. Moving data and adapting it for a new platform shouldn't be a problem once I have the right parts fitted to it.

[chocobosnap]

Nah, but I don't think it would be happy on the train. They like to run around a lot and get at greens and we don't exactly have a big enough space for them.

A baby would be so cute though!

[jingyeets]

( okay so things that are large he can think of are mostly: furniture, boats, a mountain, a cold spring no one can actually order probably, and... other things which have no real use. so if it's all useless, then: )

Ropes course? ( weird illusion memory go! ) Chicken coop? ( this may lack chickens, but it does not lack potential, okay! ) Swings with a proper frame for attaching? ( since there's a lack of places to attach any... ) A complete forge?

( are any of these things entirely practical, hmm. )

[blitzcheer]

...Those are options.

[ That's just, huh. Tidus is blinking between surprise and blank. Options he was expecting out of that list: none.

He wants to ask 'Why a chicken coop?', but the obvious reason is holding him back - despite really wanting to ask it, his mouth opening and closing, brow dipping. ]

Huh. [ This is more incredulous than the bouncy house, apparently. ] The lab doesn't have a place for forging?

[blitzcheer]

Guess your lil' plush dolls will have to make do! They might make better dolls than a life-sized one too - would a chocobo doll stand up straight?

[jingyeets]

( tidus. tidus. have pity in those of us who didn't understand bouncy house as a concept and offered up... vaguely... use...ful? suggestions?

... train, just know he lives in dreams of a functional chicken carriage. let's get more self sufficient around here, bless.

he scrunches his nose a touch... and lifts his shoulders in a shrug. )

Maybe? Not one I recognise.

[blitzcheer]

Alright, no problem! I'll bring it when we get shoved out onto the platform and hand it over. Just don't have too much fun with it and lose it; I finally started getting somewhere on the stupid strategy game I got.

[ Pah, building up units and having to think about moves! ]

[flatteries]

[ Wow. Look, bro, he was trying to be gentle about this! You're the one forcing his hand right now to be a little more direct as he says: ]

No one can read your handwriting like that! What does that first line even say?

[blitzcheer]

Ah? [ Pah? What is Inigo saying here?! Tidus swings his head back and forth- ]

What are you saying? It says 'bouncy house-castle'! Read it! [ Ugh, he can't move the ICP screen into view, so - let him grab the whiteboard off the back of the seat and bring it closer. ]

Now can you read it?

[agoodsoul]

Aces, pool it is then. S'good plan I think.

[One thing at a time. Plus the kids would like the pool too, right?]

Uhh... probably in the gym, but might just be better to get a model firetruck, not sure how useful a full sized one would be for the train.

[blitzcheer]

[ Well, isn't that a shame. Maybe he can talk to Q'uila about that, but just sticking a forge...somewhere on the train without a plan sounds tricky (which isn't to say he's thinking that deeply about it either). Though, for right now- ]

You know how to use one?

[blitzcheer]

[ A model firetruck? He glances to the side, struck with a thought. ]

I wonder if I can a model blitz sphere? [ But there's a pause, and he huffs a laugh as he looks back. ]

Does buying a toy sports pool sound sad?

[ It sounds kinda sad to him. ]

[agoodsoul]

Don't see why not? Real good models are super accurate and very detailed. Bet Inigo would love em.

[Cause Inigo always seemed so interested in that kind of stuff, things from other worlds.]

Nah, just sounds like you miss being able to do your thing.

[blitzcheer]

[ He opens his mouth like he wants to say something, his expression complicated, like there's an argument, whether or not it's really directed at Dennis.

But instead he turns it into a light chuckle, pulls a grin for the screen. ]

If I get Inigo anything, I can't let him know what it is 'til it's here. I know he's listening right now!

[ Calling you out, Inigo!! ]

[agoodsoul]

[Dennis wonders if he's said something wrong, until Tidus explains and he shakes his head.]

Maybe if we whisper he won't hear?

[Now he's just being a little shit.]

[blitzcheer]

[ Ohhh, whisper time! Tidus will join in. ]

Cool, cool. How about a tiny dragon?

[flatteries]

[ Out of nowhere - or, well, technically out of nowhere, since there's no way these two didn't expect Inigo to just pipe up - and with just way too much volume to be appropriate across the ICPs: ]

WHAT'S A FIRETRUCK?

[ That'll teach you two knuckleheads to talk about him behind his back!! ]

[jingyeets]

Huh? Yeah, between basics and reforging for stuff that needs it.

( Read: he got to play with fire and metal and bang things and noises were made. He's not any expert, far from it, but swords and the like have their own fascination and needs when it came to upkeep. Tools related to their trade were important: those were what they made themselves, versus what was purchased elsewhere. )

Mostly for swords, some other tools cultivators need, and some small work. Why?

[agoodsoul]

[Dennis actually jumps, cursing before starting to laugh.]

Fucking hell, Inigo- gave me a heart attack.

[He's not mad, it's okay! Just scared him.]

Indoor voice, mate. Firetruck is a vehicle we use to fight fires. Got a big uh... canon? That shoots really powerful streams of water to put out fires. Gets all our gear and us to fires too. Got a big ladder on it so we can climb to higher floors in buildings.

[blitzcheer]

Yeowch-!

[ Inigo got them both with that, Tidus slapping his hands over his ears after he startles, as if that's going to help at that point. But he laughs too after. ]

And here Dennis was trying to treat you!

[ And Inigo's getting upset!! ]

[blitzcheer]

[ Now it's Tidus's time to give a small shrug. ]

I don't know anything about you. [ The basic of it. ] And I don't know how common it is to know how to use one. Or raise...chickens. Person to person, you know? I lived outside that kind of life.

I think I saw a forge once when I was travelling.

[ So his mind is wondering about the picture to build. ]

[jingyeets]

( For his part, Jingyi shrugs. )

Common or not, I don't know. And technically I've never raised chickens.

( He pauses, then shrugs again, not bothering to explain the whys. Rabbits were a happy accident under an umbrella of tolerance. Chickens would be noisy, in a way the rabbits weren't, and he thinks that never would have worked the same way. Besides, chicken eggs, duck eggs, what didn't they buy from town? )

Never had a swing, either, but I've seen them before in manors and multi-courtyard homes in different towns.

( A more thoughtful pause, and: )

Far as I can tell, even if I think I know someone, we've still all lived different lives.

[blitzcheer]

Sure - it's more just painting an image, I guess. [ He tips his head in place of a shrug. ] Either you brought it up 'cause you're familiar with it or you're just pulling out ideas.

[ Nothing deeper to it than that. And so, it turned out to be a mix of the two. ]

Wonder how much a bunch of chickens would love it every time we made stops. [ Now that's a funny thought. ] Those things can go mad.

[jan_ken_hacking]

[With the dull flatness that should never speak the following words-]

Soap car.

[dear god]